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nel, dill, caraway, celery, parsley, anise, carrot and most wild 
species of umbelliferous plants. 
REMEDIES. 
As the caterpillars live exposed upon the plants they select 
for food, and as they are so very voracious, their presence is 
readily detected, and the remedies as easily applied. A thor- 
ough spraying with Paris-green or London-purple in the usual 
proportions will soon reduce their numbers, and there is no 
excuse to permit these insects to appear in destructive num- 
bers. 
THE BOX-ELDER BUG. 
(Leptocorisa trivittata Say.) 
There are few insects that have created such a sensation, 
such a fear, as has the above bug during the last two years 
in Minnesota. EHarly in September, and all through October 
and the early part of November, the letter carrier never 
failed to bring his daily ration of letters asking for informa- 
tion in regard to it. Packages of all kinds arrived at the 
office of the entomologist and contained almost invariably 
specimens of this brightly colored insect. Some writers feared 
that these bugs might be an improved breed, an enlarged 
edition of the injurious chinch-bugs; others complained by 
stating that bed-bugs were bad enough, and that they did 
not care for an addition of domestic insects so much larger than 
those cultivated before. This fall such inquiries were so — 
numerous that it was deemed best to publish articles about 
this insect in most of the daily papers and thus to allay to 
some extent all exaggerated fears. The insect is not as bad 
as its long scientifie name would indicate; in fact, such long 
names are only of a threatening aspect to people who have 
not studied any branch of natural history. It is frequently 
asserted that the smallest animals have the longest names; 
this is not so, however, as some larger ones are distinguished 
by names that are long in proportion to their size. Scienti- 
fic names are a necessity, though they may appear an evil 
to some persons. 
The box-elder bug, well known in the south by the name 
‘‘cotton-stainer”’, has indeed so rapidly increased in numbers 
